Rictor's FML pose

[eliyes]

A little something I whipped up after thinking about it for, well, since August 2007. A nice bit of body language continuity. I tip my hat to Mr. Raimondi for working that in.

Comments

[taichara]

Is it body language continuity or just cribbing the older panel, though ...?

[eliyes]

I think it's body language continuity. For one thing, Ric's anatomy is better in the latter art. There is actually a second panel of him like this in the X-Factor book, but it's really small, and more from his left and above. Also, the context is that he'd shut himself in a bedroom for the past four days because he's really upset, and hasn't come out*, so I feel this is believable body language, and also works for both situation, since the context for the top panel is that he's been captured by Arcade and trapped in a room full with all those delicate-stemmed glass bubbles we see which are filled with nitroglycerin so he can't use his powers to escape, and all he has for company is a TV showing him his best bud having to do what Arcade wants because Ric is a hostage. I wish that flashback to him as a kid (8? 9?) in jail with his dad that's in X-Force didn't have such ass art so I could see if he happens to be sitting like this there...

*(What I want to know is whether, in those four days in X-Factor, this is the first time someone

[meghannibrooks]

It's the pose he always takes on when feeling sorry for himself - justly sorry for himself - it's the way he's sat ever since h was a child. It's a useless protection from the monsters of him life and mind, keeping his internal organs safe.

It had been his default position when in the hands of The Right, physical violence was as apart of his day as lack of food and water and companionship.

[eliyes]

:/ As far as we've ever see, The Right always kept him shackled in an upright spread-eagle.

(Or are you spinning fictive? In which case, sorry for stepping on your muse.)

[meghannibrooks]

I'm of the opinion they moved him around a bit too and hidden while they were setting up. The sitting like that would kind of make sense in the fact that when he had the change to not be stuck in that open and vulnerable position, it was a form of defiance?

It's nice to imaging what goes on (well, not nice, exactly) off panel.

I kind of was, yeah. XD

[eliyes]

It's an alright position for protecting his internal organs, especially as he doe sit with his back against a wall. And it's practically a foetal position. Poor Ric.

Sorry. ^^;